28 Liberty Street

28 Liberty Street
The western facade viewed from the ground
General information
Status	Completed
Architectural style	International
Location	28 Liberty Street Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Coordinates	40°42′28″N 74°00′32″W / 40.70778°N 74.00889°W / 40.70778; -74.00889
Construction started	January 1957
Topped-out	September 1959
Completed	January 1961 (tower) May 7, 1964 (plaza)
Owner	Fosun International
Height
Architectural	813 ft (248 m)
Technical details
Floor count	60 (+6 below grade)[a]
Floor area	2,299,979 sq ft (213,675.0 m2)
Lifts/elevators	37
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Structural engineer	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Weiskopf & Pickworth LLP
Main contractor	Turner Construction
New York City Landmark
Designated	February 10, 2009
Reference no.	2294

28 Liberty Street, formerly known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza, is a 60-story International style skyscraper between Nassau, Liberty, William, and Pine Streets in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The building, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), opened in 1961. It is 813 feet (248 m) tall.

28 Liberty Street occupies only about 28 percent of its 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) site. It consists of 60 above-ground stories, a ground-level concourse, and five basement levels. The tower is surrounded by a plaza that contains a sunken Japanese rock garden, designed by Isamu Noguchi, to the south. The building's design is similar to that of SOM's earlier Inland Steel Building in Chicago. It contains a stainless steel facade with black spandrels below the windows. The superstructure contains 40 steel columns, arranged around the perimeter and clustered around the core to maximize usable space. when the tower opened, it accommodated 7,500 employees but contained only 150 private offices.

David Rockefeller, then executive vice president of Chase Manhattan, proposed the tower in the 1950s as a means to keep the newly merged bank in Lower Manhattan while merging its 8,700 employees into one facility.^[1] Construction started in early 1957, and the building's tower opened in early 1961. The building's basements and plaza opened in 1964. Despite some early challenges, One Chase Manhattan Plaza was nearly fully occupied from its opening, with numerous financial and legal tenants. The building was renovated in the early 1990s, and Chase moved its headquarters in 1997. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a landmark in 2008. Chase Manhattan's parent company JPMorgan Chase sold the building to Fosun International, a Chinese investment company, in 2013; the building was subsequently renamed 28 Liberty Street.

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